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  • Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Respiratory Medicine

Background:

  • Postoperative oxygen desaturation following general surgery is not well understood.
  • Continuous pulse oximetry is needed to accurately assess arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) in this population.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the incidence, severity, and duration of postoperative hypoxemia using continuous pulse oximetry.
  • To compare continuous SpO2 monitoring with routine nursing saturation recordings.

Main Methods:

  • Continuous, blinded SpO2 monitoring at 1-minute intervals for up to 48 hours post-noncardiac surgery in 1500 patients (>45 years old).
  • Analysis of cumulative minutes and contiguous durations of hypoxemic episodes below defined SpO2 thresholds.
  • Comparison of continuous SpO2 data with saturation values documented during routine nursing care.

Main Results:

  • Twenty-one percent of patients experienced ≥10 min/h with SpO2 <90%; 8% averaged ≥20 min/h <90%.
  • Thirty-seven percent of patients had ≥1 hour of SpO2 <90%; 11% had episodes lasting ≥6 hours.
  • Routine nursing records missed 90% of hypoxemic episodes (SpO2 <90% for ≥1 hour).

Conclusions:

  • Hypoxemia is frequent and prolonged in patients recovering from noncardiac surgery.
  • Standard medical record SpO2 values significantly underestimate the true extent and severity of postoperative hypoxemia.